Richard Dorment, OBE, was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art before moving to London where he was a free-lance exhibition organiser and author before joining the Daily Telegraph as art critic in 1986. He retired in 2015.
Read moreJörg Fauser, born in Germany in 1944, was a novelist, essayist and journalist. Having broken his dependency on heroin at the age of thirty he spent much of the rest of his working life dependent on alcohol.
Read moreAlice Ferney, born in Paris in 1967, studied business management at university and combines her life as a novelist with that of a professor at the University of Orleans.
Read moreJef Geeraerts was born in 1930 in Antwerp and is Belgium's best known author after Georges Simenon. He gained international acclaim with his "Gangrene Cycle", four novels based on his experience in the Congo.
Read moreMark Girouard is the leading architectural historian of his generation and the author of numerous books, most notably Life in the English Country House which won numerous prizes and sold some 200,000 copies in the 1980s.
Read moreMario Giordano, born in 1963, writes screenplays and novels. Auntie Poldi is his first crime novel.
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